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From: cohen@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Alexander Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: ATM and font spacing problems with an imagewriterII
Keywords: ATM, ImagewriterII, Font Spacing
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Date: 22 Oct 89 19:58:17 GMT
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	I just recieved  Adobe Type Manager (ATM) in the mail on Friday via
Airborne, as I'm sure many of you did.  However upon using it I 
immediately found a great deal of spacing problems between certain letters
particularly when double m's or r's were involved.  An `x` and an `e`
together, for example look horrible.  The various letters involved
seem to differ between the various included fonts.  This problem is 
visible on the screen, but becomes very noticeable when printed on the
ImagewriterII, to the point of being unusable.

	At other times in the past I've noticed similar difficulties
when printing 12 point times or 12 point AvantGarde from their respective
bitmaps on the imagewriter and expected that ATM would make my output
with Adobe fonts similar to laserwriter quality excepting, of course, 
resolution.  The advertisements are aimed directly at Imagewriter users.
A recent posting from Adobe mentioned turning on the Fraction Width
feature, but this only works with the Laserwriter.

	What gives?  How can I get respectable spacing?  

	In other respects, ATM seems fairly slick, but if they don't
address this spacing problem, Apple will be having the last laughs with
Royal.

	Any comments, suggestions????? 

	Alex Cohen, SUNY@Buffalo Dept. of Computer Science